Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
35 filings
$423K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
33 filings
$460K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3557118th CongressAmerican Broadband Deployment Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: city-of-eugene.
ECN
18 filings
$280K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$150K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
10 filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$125K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
8 filings
$150K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$75K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$125K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
117th Congress
Broadband Incentives for Communities Act
3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2012116th CongressRestoring Local Control Over Public Infrastructure Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Kierstin Stradford-PattersonSmith GarsonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Systems Administrator, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Legislative Assistant and Systems Administrator, Congressman Kweisi Mfume
